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... feet of the dan- cers . The overture announces by its dark harmony , the fatal career of Don Giovanni . Ambrogetti's performance of the Hero is the finest specimen of acting exhibited in this country . His vocal powers are not even of a ...
... feet of the dan- cers . The overture announces by its dark harmony , the fatal career of Don Giovanni . Ambrogetti's performance of the Hero is the finest specimen of acting exhibited in this country . His vocal powers are not even of a ...
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... feet in depth . The theatre contains a species of longitudinal chizelled canal , the use of which I cannot comprehend . The populace entered the building through two corridors , one above , and the other almost level with the orches ...
... feet in depth . The theatre contains a species of longitudinal chizelled canal , the use of which I cannot comprehend . The populace entered the building through two corridors , one above , and the other almost level with the orches ...
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... feet high , and from 15 to 20 feet wide , surmounted by small columns formed after a bad taste , nor can I imagine why it is said that this building was used as an exchange , or a place of public assembly . At the other extremity of the ...
... feet high , and from 15 to 20 feet wide , surmounted by small columns formed after a bad taste , nor can I imagine why it is said that this building was used as an exchange , or a place of public assembly . At the other extremity of the ...
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... feet in length , and at the extremity of some few , were still found the materials used for colouring wine , dried up by time , the dust of which I tasted , in the hope that it might prove the celebrated wine of Falernum . Above the ...
... feet in length , and at the extremity of some few , were still found the materials used for colouring wine , dried up by time , the dust of which I tasted , in the hope that it might prove the celebrated wine of Falernum . Above the ...
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... feet water found . Lord Byron . 28 . One gang of people instantly was put Upon the pumps , and the remainder set To get up part of the cargo , and what not , But they could not come at the leak as yet ; At last they did get at it really ...
... feet water found . Lord Byron . 28 . One gang of people instantly was put Upon the pumps , and the remainder set To get up part of the cargo , and what not , But they could not come at the leak as yet ; At last they did get at it really ...
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Page 118 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Page 103 - Save the wild wind and the remorseless dash Of billows; but at intervals there gush'd, Accompanied with a convulsive splash, A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry Of some strong swimmer in his agony.
Page 495 - The roar of waters!— from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice; The fall of waters ! rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss; The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss, And boil in endless torture; while the sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set...
Page 308 - He made me no answer, but sat some time in a muse; then brake off that discourse and fell upon another subject. After the sickness was over and the city well cleansed, and become safely habitable again, he returned thither. And when afterwards I went to wait on him there, which I seldom failed of doing whenever my occasions drew me to London, he showed me his second poem, called
Page 105 - There were two fathers in this ghastly crew, And with them their two sons, of whom the one Was more robust and hardy to the view, But he died early ; and when he was gone, His nearest messmate told his sire, who threw One glance at him, and said, " Heaven's will be done, I can do nothing," and he saw him thrown Into the deep, without a tear or groan.
Page 199 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand: This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.
Page 131 - Unhonour'd falls, unnoticed all his worth, Denied in heaven the soul he held on earth: While man, vain insect! hopes to be forgiven, And claims himself a sole exclusive heaven.
Page 307 - At my first sitting to read to him, observing that I used the English pronunciation, he told me if I would have the benefit of the Latin tongue, not only to read and understand Latin authors, but to converse with foreigners, either abroad or at home, I must learn the foreign pronunciation.
Page 308 - Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found?
Page 105 - The other father had a weaklier child, Of a soft cheek, and aspect delicate ; But the boy bore up long, and with a mild And patient spirit held aloof his fate ; Little he said, and now and then he smiled, As if to win a part from off the weight He saw increasing on his father's heart, With the deep deadly thought, that they must part.